Consumer Discretionary

Pool Corp (POOL) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

POOL is Pool Corp, a Consumer Discretionary name the model ranks every trading day. The options figures are from the close on 28 Sep 2026. The model's figures are from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind the latest, as the Free plan shows them. Every model figure is paper trading.

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At a glance

Figure	Value	Date
IV rank	86 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	41.8%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	8.3% down, 8.9% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	180 and 160	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view neutral	25 Sep
Last close	163.31	28 Sep
Next report	22 Oct 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

POOL's IV rank is 86 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	86 of 100
At the money IV	41.8%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	2.81
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	2,500 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	7,020 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Wide, 60.9% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among POOL's own weekly readings, 0 the lowest and 100 the highest.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Priced Range

On 28 Sep 2026, POOL options priced a move of 8.3 percent down and 8.9 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	8.3%	8.9%	149.71 to 177.81
20 Nov 2026	53	19.1%	16.3%	132.11 to 189.91
18 Dec 2026	81	19.2%	25.1%	132.01 to 204.31
15 Jan 2027	109	21.1%	22.4%	128.81 to 199.81
16 Apr 2027	200	28.3%	32.5%	117.11 to 216.41

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 163.31, as the option prices imply it.

A priced move restates option prices at the close and says nothing certain about where the price goes.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, POOL's call wall is the 180 strike and its put wall is the 160 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	180
Put wall, most open put gamma	160
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	174.19
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $2.47 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$3.98 million
Close	163.31

Dollar gamma is stated for a one percent move in the price.

Net is calls minus puts under the standard convention, not a record of who holds the contracts.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, POOL's at the money IV is 41.8 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 23.9 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	41.8%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	23.9%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	35.3%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	840, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	25.0% of 252 weeks

Realized volatility is worked out from the daily closes the desk holds, not from the option chain.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, POOL's at the money IV runs from 41.8 percent at 18 days to 43.9 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	41.8%
53	50.5%
81	62.0%
109	47.9%
200	43.9%

Far expiries price more volatility than near ones, an upward sloping term structure.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, POOL's IV ten percent below the price sits 7.0 points below at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	43.5%	-7.0 points
At the money	50.5%	0.0 points
10% above the price	50.5%	+0.0 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, POOL's surface spans 5 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 38.2 to 177.4 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	5
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	16 Apr 2027, 200 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	30
Lowest IV among them	38.2%
Highest IV among them	177.4%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, POOL has 5 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 16 Apr 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	41.8%	1,541	3,998
20 Nov 2026	53	50.5%	188	1,644
18 Dec 2026	81	62.0%	474	571
15 Jan 2027	109	47.9%	285	709
16 Apr 2027	200	43.9%	14	94

Open interest is summed over the strikes captured near the price on each expiry.

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, POOL's largest open interest sits at the 160 strike, with 2,688 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
160	11	2,677	2,688
170	241	1,082	1,323
165	49	1,170	1,219
155	4	765	769
180	483	111	594
175	327	168	495

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, POOL's at the money IV moved from 46.3 percent to 41.8 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	46.3%	41.8%	-4.5 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	9,671	9,518	-153
Put/call ratio, open interest	2.63	2.80	+0.17

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 928 POOL option contracts traded, 0.6 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	431
Puts traded	497
Against its recent average	0.6 times
Busier than	4 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	11,337 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.08
Unusual volume flag	No

Traded volume and open interest are shown side by side and never combined. Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 33 trading days of POOL's option positioning, from 11 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
11 Aug 2026	201.50	$301,686	200	170
21 Sep 2026	167.92	minus $2.24 million	180	170
28 Sep 2026	163.31	minus $2.47 million	180	160

Each frame restates one nightly capture. Net is calls minus puts, a convention, not who holds the contracts.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of POOL was neutral, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Neutral at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	165.63, the swing high of 18 Sep 2026
Level below the close	160.38, the swing low of 24 Sep 2026
Strategy family	Iron condor (sell both sides, defined risk)
Price target	None. The desk has no price model.

The levels are prices the shares turned at on the chart, with the date of each.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Rank by Timeframe

On 25 Sep 2026 POOL sat at the 50th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	29 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	45 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	50 of 100	Neutral

100 is the top of the ranking. A name in the middle three fifths is neutral.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Timeframe Agreement

On 25 Sep 2026 POOL's near timeframes were neutral and its long timeframe was neutral, paper trading.

Group	Timeframes	Side	On that side
Near	10 day, 20 day	Neutral	0 of 2
Long	45 day	Neutral	0 of 1

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 POOL had carried no signal for at least 18 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	50 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	47 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	55 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	47 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	60 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	44 of 100
17 Sep 2026	None	49 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	71 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 27 of 106 Consumer Discretionary names were bullish and 33 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Consumer Discretionary	106	27	33	46

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Price Chart

POOL closed at 163.31 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	163.31
Change over 5 trading days	-2.7%
Change over 21 trading days	-12.2%
Change over 63 trading days	-22.8%
Change over 252 trading days	-46.5%
52 week high	313.75
52 week low	160.38
20 day moving average	173.03
50 day moving average	185.33
200 day moving average	210.24
RSI, 14 days	30

Worked out from the desk's own daily bars, adjusted for share splits.

From the daily bars through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Earnings Radar

POOL reports next on 22 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	22 Oct 2026, before the open
Date	Worked out from past quarters
Move after the report of 24 Apr 2026	-3.1%
Move after the report of 22 Jan 2026	-0.7%
Move after the report of 24 Apr 2025	-6.7%
Move after the report of 20 Feb 2025	+1.0%

Earnings calendar as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Company Events

POOL filed 1 current report in the 14 days to 28 Sep 2026, the latest on 25 Sep 2026.

Filed	Report	What it covers
25 Sep 2026	Current report	Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

Filings as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 63.9 percent of POOL's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	63.9%
Five day average	52.5%
52 week median	56.2%
Short interest, share of shares outstanding	9.1% at the 15 Sep 2026 settlement
Days to cover	4.4

Short sale volume counts trades marked short at the covered venues, mostly off exchange. It is not the same as short interest.

Short volume as of 25 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Seasonality

In the 23 Septembers on record, POOL's average change was minus 1.1 percent, and it rose in 52.2 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-1.1%	+1.0%	52.2%	23
October	+1.1%	+1.1%	56.5%	23
November	+2.5%	+3.0%	60.9%	23

Each figure is a month end to month end change in past years. A past month says nothing certain about the next one.

Monthly history through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Questions

What is POOL's IV rank?: POOL's IV rank is 86 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are POOL options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, POOL options priced a move of 8.3 percent down and 8.9 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are POOL's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, POOL's call wall is the 180 strike and its put wall is the 160 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of POOL on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of POOL was neutral, paper trading.
When does POOL report earnings next?: POOL reports next on 22 Oct 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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